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From version 27.1
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on 2022-05-20 16:12
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68 68  === Mac OSX ===
69 69  
70 70  1. Install VLC
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71 71  1. Install Keka
73 +
74 +1. Install FFmpeg through the use of [[HomeBrew>>https://brew.sh]] (recommended because of all the other useful things you can install if you like this kind of stuff) or install the statically linked binary version of the [[FFmpeg binaries>>http://ffmpeg.org/download.html]] from [[https:~~/~~/evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/>>https://evermeet.cx/ffmpeg/]].  This file will need to be placed into a directory that's on your path (not yet described how to do)
75 +\\The statically linked installation is going to be faster and easier to do than the homebrew version.
72 72  )))
73 73  )))
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82 82  (((
83 83  (% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" style="border-right:black solid 1px;" %)
84 84  (((
85 -=== Windows Video Capture ===
89 +=== Windows ===
86 86  
87 87  Open a command window, and run the following commands:
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91 91  
92 92  (% style="font-size:14px" %)This will create a video file called "screenCapture.mkv" on your desktop that you can replay using VLC Media Player.
93 93  
94 -(% style="font-size:14px" %)The parameters to the ffmpeg command have the following meaning
98 +(% style="font-size:14px" %)The parameters to the ffmpeg command have the following meanings
95 95  
96 -(% class="min" %)
100 +(% class="grid min" %)
97 97  |-f gdigrab|gdigrab is the windows framebuffer, where the screen is stored
98 -|-t 6|capture 6 seconds of video and exit.  3600 = 1 hour, 14400 = 4 hours
102 +|-t 6|capture 6 seconds of video and exit.  3600 = 1 hour, 14400 = 4 hours.  If you omit this parameter, the capture will continue until you press [Control C] to gracefully tell ffmpeg to stop
103 +|(% style="font-size:14px" %)-framerate 60|if you want to see the candles paint second by second, you should have a framerate of at least 60.  Technically speaking, you actually need 120, but let's not get too crazy.
99 99  |-draw_mouse 1|capture the mouse pointer
100 100  |-i desktop|capture the entire desktop -  remember to maximize your window
101 101  |-c:v libx264rgb|this video encoder will preserve the rgb color values losslessly
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111 111  
112 112  (% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" %)
113 113  (((
114 -=== Mac Video Capture ===
119 +=== Mac OSX ===
115 115  
116 -sfasd
121 +Open a terminal window and run the following commands:
117 117  
118 -asdfasdf
123 +>(% style="font-size:14px" %)cd ~~/Desktopffmpeg -f avfoundation -t 6 -pixel_format 0rgb -capture_cursor 1 -capture_mouse_clicks 1 -framerate 60 -i "1:" -filter:v "format=yuv444p" -c:v libx265 -crf 0 -preset ultrafast screenCapture.mkv
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125 +(% style="font-size:14px" %)This will create a video file called "screenCapture.mkv" on your Desktop that you can replay using VLC Media Player.
126 +
127 +(% style="font-size:14px" %)The parameters to the ffmpeg command have the following meanings
128 +
129 +(% class="lined min" %)
130 +|-f avfoundation|gdigrab is the windows framebuffer, where the screen is stored
131 +|-t 6|capture 6 seconds of video and exit.  3600 = 1 hour, 14400 = 4 hours.  If you omit this parameter, the capture will continue until you press [Control C] to gracefully tell ffmpeg to stop
132 +|(% style="font-size:14px" %)-framerate 60|if you want to see the candles paint second by second, you should have a framerate of at least 60.  Technically speaking, you actually need 120, but let's not get too crazy.
133 +|-pixel_format 0rgb|get the data as RGB colors instead of some bizzzare color model
134 +|-capture_cursor 1|capture the mouse pointer
135 +|-capture_mouse_clicks 1|and capture the clicks with an onscreen visual notification
136 +|-i "1:"|capture the first screen.  Not really important unless you have multiple screens and you are not capturing the primary screen
137 +|-filter:v "format=yuv444p"|transform the input colors into this color format, which is fairly quick when converting from RGB and without too much color shifting
138 +(I'm still looking to improve upon this - the windows encoding has an exact RGB color modelling which means no color shift)
139 +|-c:v libx265|encode the video using H.265 compression.  It makes for smaller videos without consuming too much processing time
140 +|-crf 0|lossless compression
141 +|-preset ultrafast|save the data as quickly as possible, don't waste too much time compressing the data.
142 +
143 +There is no point in trying to compress this video any further with these parameters.  Further compression will require a lot of time and cpu power to see any further gain.
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147 +(% class="wikigeneratedid" %)
148 +== Audio Capture ==
149 +
150 +=== Windows ===
151 +
152 +=== Mac OSX ===
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154 +
155 +== References ==
156 +
157 +FFmpeg documentation:
158 +
159 +* [[https:~~/~~/ffmpeg.org/documentation.html>>https://ffmpeg.org/documentation.html]]
160 +
161 +Lossless capture:
162 +
163 +* [[https:~~/~~/video.stackexchange.com/questions/25034/lossless-capture-with-ffmpeg>>https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/25034/lossless-capture-with-ffmpeg]]
164 +* [[https:~~/~~/video.stackexchange.com/questions/8305/lossless-screen-recording-software>>https://video.stackexchange.com/questions/8305/lossless-screen-recording-software]]
165 +* [[https:~~/~~/trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop>>https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop]]
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